Kevin Hardcastle, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Washington University in St. Louis, is a member of the CIO Leadership team and serves a key role in University leadership, working closely with senior administration, academic leaders and the campus community. The CISO is responsible for the development and delivery of a holistic information security strategy to optimize the security posture through collaboration with campus-wide resources, facilitate information security governance, advise senior leadership on security direction and direct program functions of risk and incident management, compliance, information security operations, and information security policy development and education.